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Carl Sagan Quote - Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

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Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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I’ve always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
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Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course.
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